[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Man who shot Pope freed from jail
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Last Updated: Thursday, 12 January 2006, 11:31 GMT
Man who shot Pope freed from jail
Watch Agca's release
The Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II almost 25 years
ago has been released from prison.
Mehmet Ali Agca served nearly 20 years in Italian jails for the attempted
murder, and was then jailed in Turkey for bank robbery and another killing.
Agca, 48, shot the Pope in St Peter's Square in 1981, but has never
explained why. The pontiff later visited him in jail and publicly forgave him.
Agca has had to report to the army as he may have to do military service.
It is not clear if he will actually serve, get a medical exemption, or
pay a fine.
His brother Adnan said told the Associated Press (AP) news agency that
Agca was looking forward to having a meal of beans and rice while overlooking
the Bosporus strait, which runs through Istanbul.
Anger over release
Agca fired at Pope John Paul II on 13 May 1981, hitting him four times.
The gunman was pardoned by the Italian authorities in 2000 and extradited
to Turkey, where he was jailed for the 1979 murder of a left-wing Turkish
journalist and two bank robberies.
Agca fired at Pope John Paul as he waved to crowds in Rome
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Last week, a Turkish court ruled Agca had completed his term for those
offences.
His release has been divisive in Turkey.
The daughter of the journalist he killed published a front-page letter in
the national newspaper Milliyet calling him "not just the murderer of my
father... I see him as our national assassin".
Nationalist supporters cheered Agca's release, throwing flowers at the
car that took him away from the prison.
"Mehmet Ali Agca is a role model for everyone who loves the Turkish
nation," Seyfi Yilmaz told AP outside the prison.
Agca's lawyer, Mustafa Demirbag, told AP his client wanted to put the
assassination attempt behind him and "extend the hand of peace and friendship
to everyone".
Soviet 'involvement'
Agca was a 23-year-old known criminal with links to Turkish far-right
paramilitaries at the time of the attack in Rome.
The Turkish government should guarantee Agca's security because he
knows so many secrets and he may be killed
Ferdinando Imposimato
Former Italian magistrate
There were claims that the Soviet KGB and its Bulgarian counterpart were
behind the assassination attempt, but prosecutors at a trial in 1986 failed to
prove a link to the Bulgarian secret service.
On a 2002 visit to Sofia, John Paul II said he had never believed in a
Bulgarian link to the shooting.
One of Italy's most respected magistrates in the 1980s, who probed the
attack at the time, has warn that Agca's life is at risk because of the many
secrets he knows.
Ferdinando Imposimato is convinced of Soviet bloc involvement. The Pope
at the time was preaching a message that challenged Soviet Communism's
collectivist ideology.
"I think the Turkish government should guarantee Agca's security because
he knows so many secrets and he may be killed," he said in an interview with
Reuters television on Wednesday.
On This Day: Pope shot
Analysis: Plot mystery
Agca fired several times at the late Pope John Paul II as he waved to
crowds from an open car.
The critically wounded pontiff underwent emergency surgery for serious
wounds to the abdomen and hand. According to his own account, he only just
survived.
He met his attacker two years later in an Italian prison, when he
publicly forgave him.
Pope John Paul II died in April 2005 at the age of 84.
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